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Mokpo, a place where the Yeongsan River in Jeollanam-do flows and meets the sea, has now turned into a huge garbage dump. It is not easy for boats to go to and from Mokpo Port with trash floated from the Yeongsan River amid torrential rain.

Reporter Lee Dong-geun of KBC covered the scene.

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ferry dock is covered with garbage. The sea water also turned to a hazy yellow-orange color.

The ferry between the huge piles of plants and miscellaneous trash is breathtaking.

Purification ships and heavy equipment are being put in and they are working on emergency collection, but there is no end to putting them away.


As you can see, the sea off Mokpo has turned into a garbage dump.

From the piles of water weeds to plastic bottles and styrofoam, all kinds of trash have been pushed up to the point of inconvenience in the operation of the ferry.

[Song-ik Song/Collection Worker: There are many difficulties in working. Since yesterday, I have been working on it, but it has been endlessly coming.] The

sea ​​off the Peace Plaza, where there is a dancing sea fountain, has also become a mess.

The area around Hagutduk that connects to the sea has turned into a huge garbage dump.

[Park Hwa-yong/Citizen: It was completely (by trash) an island. I exercise every morning, from the bottom of the mountain to the end... .]

Garbage was poured into the offshore of Mokpo from the opening of the drainage lock on the river bank of the Yeongsan River due to torrential rain.

More than 8,000 tons of rainwater was discharged per second, and when the ebb and flow period was over, trash like a pile of garbage was pushed in.

The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Administration and Mokpo City are mobilizing purification vessels and heavy equipment to clean them up, but the amount of trash is so large and the scattered radius is wide, so it is difficult.

(Video coverage: Park Do-min KBC, Kim Dae-soo JTV)